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• The American Plan and the 2026 Elections

  Woody Guthrie proudly sang “This land is your land, this land is my land / FromCalifornia to the New York island,” but, in fact, the conversion of vast publicresources and wealth to private property is one of the defining dynamics ofAmerican history. The political economist Thorstein Veblen called this process“The American Plan:” the conversion of

• Shein Bought Everlane. The Rest of Ethical Fashion May Follow.

  Two things happened this year that the fashion industry would prefer you didn’t connect. Shein bought Everlane — a $100 million acquisition of ethical fashion’s most recognisable name, the brand that built its identity on “radical transparency” and the promise that consumption could be made clean — and the EU quietly pushed its binding corporate accountability checks to 2029. One

• The Ruin of Civilizations as the Measure of America’s Cold War Victory

  In the wake of the latest American strike against Iran, many commentators have once again revived familiar narratives about a supposed “clash between the West and Islam,” the eternal hostility of civilizations, and the alleged incompatibility of the Islamic world with modernity. In this context, it is worth revisiting a now-historic interview given in 1998